[ Cloudera has acquired a data-visualization startup called DataPad, the founding team of which specializes in data analysis using the Python programming language [1]. As Hadoop competition heats up, Cloudera might be ramping up its Python tooling in order to attract more data scientists and developers. ]

[1] The founders of DataPad (Wes McKinney and Chang She) are also the creators of the pandasPython library for data analysis.

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